• By Barry Tillman and Scott Monfort • Excessive peanut vine growth can be problematic in several ways. First, too much vine can increase disease because of the ability of the canopy to hold moisture and the inability of fungicides...

Continued rainfall in Georgia is mostly good news for peanut growers from an insect management point of view (disease management is a different story, but Dr. Bob Kemerait can tell that one). The most damaging pest of peanut in Georgia...

Bob Sutter, Dell Cotton and Marianne Catalano were recently recognized for their contributions to the peanut industry in the Virginia-Carolina Region. They received the Corteva Excellence in Education Award presented by the American Peanut Research and Education Society. Sutter is retiring...

• By Kay Ledbetter • For 54 years, Dr. Charles Simpson, has been making a difference in the peanut products America eats — and on July 1, he was honored by the American Peanut Council with the 2021 Lifetime Achievement...

• By Ryan McGeeney • Arkansas growers responded to a global economy beginning to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic with shifting acreage, betting big on corn and pulling back from cotton, according to data from a U.S. Department of Agriculture...

Check For Active Nodulation • By Emi Kimura, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, State Extension Peanut Specialist • Peanut planting in the Southwest was delayed because of above-average rains we received in May. In typical years, we recommended checking the crop for...

The Missouri Bootheel is getting its first buying point, shelling and blanching facility. Necessity is the mother of invention, but it is also the reason producers try new crops. That’s what is happening in the Missouri Bootheel. Producers looking for...

Reduce yield loss at digging with proper equipment setup and maintenance.   • By Amanda Huber • From before the first seed is planted until harvest, producers work diligently to provide all the inputs the crop needs and protect it from...

Collaboration To Evaluate Targeted Spray Technology AGCO recently announced a collaboration with Robert Bosch GmbH, BASF Digital Farming and Raven Industries Inc. with the objective of evaluating targeted spraying technology. The goal is to make applications more effective and efficient...

A late-season foe came early in 2021, and a new miticide looks promising for control. • By Amanda Huber • Thrips were prevalent in many fields of late April- and May-planted peanuts. University of Georgia Extension entomologist Mark Abney says thrips...

Testing A New Grading System The Georgia Federal-State Inspection Service has been working with an industry committee to modernize the peanut grading system. The peanut program requires that all peanuts be inspected by a third party to determine quality, and...

One would describe the peanut market as quiet, very quiet. Buyers have booked enough peanuts to cover their needs for now, and most have withdrawn from the market waiting on a more accurate planted acreage number for 2021. Farmers...

Believe me when I say that vaccines are not a subject I expected to cover this month or anytime in the future. But what if it were a vaccine for peanuts against one of our most dreaded diseases —...

Friends and co-workers share thoughts and well wishes for retiring North Carolina peanut leader, Bob Sutter. North Carolina Peanut Growers Association CEO Bob Sutter is retiring at the end of July. He has been a true advocate for peanut growers...

• By Kay Ledbetter • Four Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Soil and Crop Sciences plant breeding program development projects have been funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture....